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For folks who see 'Snowden' trending and want to know more about why people are discussing a pardon for my part in revealing the NSA's unconstitutional mass surveillance program, I took @joerogan through the whole history here: youtube.com/watch?v=efs3QR…
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The ruling of the court demolishes the longest-held defenses of mass surveillance. After taking into account the best of the government's evidence, the court found the program unlawful and ineffective, establishing the government's public claims of "necessity" were deceitful. twitter.com/PatrickCToomey…
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Taking a Twitter sabbatical. Stay free.
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It's alarming to see the term "liberal" has become a pejorative in multiple languages. "Conservative," too, has become a meaningless epithet.
People now hiss at philosophies they can't even describe, collapsing flexible systems of belief into rigid markers of identity.
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The complicit silence as the US seeks to force the extradition of a publisher—for daring to publish true information—is even harder to justify when you discover that the FBI's star witness is an admitted fraud and child predator... who was just jailed.
stundin.is/grein/14117/so…
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You too can get access to the "100s of petabytes of data"—perfect records of our private lives—that the NSA routinely ingests about people who have never been suspected of any wrongdoing. They'll tell you this is legal. They'll say it's constitutional.
But you'll know better. twitter.com/NSAGov/status/…
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We need to know whether our hospitals are safe. If we can't even prevent retaliation against healthcare workers for warning of hazards during a pandemic, "whistleblower protection" is a cruel myth. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Those who looked the other way because they personally disliked Julian Assange when the DOJ indicted him under a legal theory that merely publishing clear, public-interest journalism could constitute multiple Espionage Act violations should reconsider where that road leads. twitter.com/DavidUberti/st…
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On a website for people with a four-second attention span, that's a lot of folks who stopped to watch a four-minute video from forty year years ago. Real numbers. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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As authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our capability to arrest the slide into a less liberal and less free world. Here's how it happens: youtube.com/watch?v=k5OAjn…
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I don't think I've ever seen anything like that.
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“Do you truly believe that when the first wave, this second wave, the 16th wave of the coronavirus is a long-forgotten memory, that these capabilities will not be kept? That these datasets will not be kept?”
Got a lot of flak for that on April 9th, 2020.
vice.com/en/article/bvg… twitter.com/AP/status/1606…
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man couldn't even win the battle against the international house of pancakes and he's out here trying to eulogize his enemies
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Biden is well-prepared to answer for this when he soon visits Europe since, of course, he was deeply involved in this scandal the first time around.
There should be an explicit requirement for full public disclosure not only from Denmark, but their senior partner as well. twitter.com/dwnews/status/…
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Censorship is on the rise, often led by companies that shape the very direction of our lives. Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) and I discussed the new contest for control of our attention as an instrument of power, which you can watch freely here: greenwald.substack.com/p/video-interv…
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anyone who questions a statement delivered from a podium is a tool of the russians, the islamic state, or both
sorry, you know the rules
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Big:
The world's major press protection groups sent a joint letter to Biden's DOJ demanding an end to reckless case against Julian Assange--a case that criminalizes the sort of journalism you read every week in the newspaper. twitter.com/FreedomofPress…
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If Biden continues to seek the extradition of a publisher under an indictment poisoned top-to-bottom with false testimony admitted by its own star witness, the damage to the United States' reputation on press freedom would last for a generation. It's unavoidable. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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This thread is a remarkable case study on how the FBI overcame a major tech company's resistance to running favors for the Feds by basically running an influence operation against key staffers—and paying to rent others—until they had the censorship crew eating out of their hands. twitter.com/shellenberger/…
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I agree with this. @Apple must go further than merely "listening"—it must drop entirely its plans to put a backdoor into systems that provide vital protections to the public. Don't make us fight you for basic privacy rights.
eff.org/deeplinks/2021…
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The most essential journalism of every era is precisely that which a government attempts to silence. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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Since 2004, Facebook has never cared about the law or "social equities." Don't fall for it.
Zuckerberg suggests Congressional action now only because he is confident the result will serve him—modestly burdening the affluent Facebook, but totally crushing its upstart competitors. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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